Example sentences of "[modal v] [to-vb] [pron] in the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The House of Commons Agriculture Committee have also examined agriculture and the system of EEC and national supports used to bolster it in the UK 's LFA , to some degree comparing the situation with that in France and West Germany . |
| 2 | I used to see her in the hairdressers sometimes . |
| 3 | We used to stand it in the window to cool down so that we could get a cool drink — it was April and temperatures were up in the nineties and there was no water on the train . |
| 4 | Accounts also tell how he used to lock himself in the church all night . |
| 5 | We used to sell them in the Store . |
| 6 | They got no coolers or anything like that , fridges , and nothing of that you know , and er , you 'd got a , we used to fetch it in the morning and we used to supply Massey 's Lavender 's in and two other , two or three other little places . |
| 7 | Oh we used to play them in the streets or anywhere like that . |
| 8 | And they used to put them in the christmas pudding . |
| 9 | Time was when a priest used to put it in the parish mag if he intended being out of the parish for more than twenty-four hours . |
| 10 | Dressed up and I used to take them and I used to leave them in the kitchen and the the head kitchen maid er the head kitchen maid w went and took them in . |
| 11 | And then little did he know when he used to leave them in the house , in the back yard , that we 'd been pinching some of them . |
| 12 | I recall many years ago a lot of people used to go on bicycles and they used to leave them in the front of those houses that are just in . |
| 13 | And then they used to keep you in the Winter more or less and the visitors making up So it was s a steady trade all round . |
| 14 | When they give you it , they have to watch you swallow it , but I used to keep it in the back of my throat and save it up . |
| 15 | In this area there was also a great amount of seasonal labour-migration : farm-workers going to sea after the harvest for the home fishing — half-breedfishermen they used to call them in the Saints district of north Suffolk ; and the fishing-chaps who bought or hired a horse or donkey and trap to hawk fish round the villages during the herring season ; and there was an associated dealing in horses from Scotland to satisfy the seasonal demand . |
| 16 | Foggy mornings , you used to gallop them in the fog , the best , gallop horses in the fog . |
| 17 | you used to wake me in the middle of the night when we were first married |
| 18 | If he made a joke and she realized it was one , she used to butt him in the chest — she was much shorter — and say ‘ You 're silly ! ’ |
| 19 | used to have them in the pub and then to play it back and people did n't realise it was there voice you know . |
| 20 | nearly thirty years ago , erm , we used to sell the old glass bowl fitting on er three chains , hanging from the ceiling and that , and I used to buy those in a crate of about fifty at a time , and er most of the houses had two lighting points in the lounge anyway so , and they 'd always wanted a pair and we used to have them in the shop on a display so that about eight of them could all be lit up at once and people could see them and if they did n't like those then the , we could always put another one under the set if we 'd got one in a certain colour , we could hang one of those up and er they could look at that and see what it looked like . |
| 21 | They used to have them in the Summer , ready for the Winter . |
| 22 | that telly was mine but I 've got a lovely picture when I used to have it in the kitchen . |
| 23 | They always used to go up the farm or we used to lay them in the boxes , up the yard , the church yard yeah . |
| 24 | Then you used to build it in a stack and then you used to take it in the barn and thresh it . |
| 25 | It was said that um when he was a baby his nurse used to masturbate him in the cradle t to calm him to stop him crying and er apparently this was at that time , so it was believed , quite a common way of of keeping infants quiet . |
| 26 | His two brothers both died with smallpox cos one was , they all three went to Wolverhampton Grammar School and they were a Wednesbury family and they died with the smallpox but I thought they were putting the youngest which was my grandfather for the best trai one was going in for law and the other was going in for medicine , and the youngest was go which was the same as engineering is today I suppose , and he went into the gun trade , and I can remember him , he was a grand old chap and er he used to come and bring the springs that he 'd made and to temper them he used to throw them in the kitchen fire , and they 'd die out and get them all out of the ashes in the morning , and he used to take his week 's work in his waistcoat pockets and his day out was to get on the tram at the Brown Lion , and go straight through Wednesbury and right through West Bromwich up to the Constitutional in Birmingham to Greeners or Wembley and Scotts and he 'd got these gun locks as he 'd made during the week in his waistcoat pockets . |
| 27 | and er he used to , he had a contract with some big potato firm and he used to buy all the , the fertilizer bags in the locality and he used to bring them there to the end of the road and he used to wash them in the burn . |
| 28 | ‘ I ought to throw them in the bin , ’ she told herself tetchily , casting one final plaintive glance in the direction of the telephone . |